The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-29
The TEMPEST.

Further Details of the Cyclone in the
West-Four People Killed in Illinois and
Indiana The Total Loss of Life in the
Tornado's Path Estimated at Thirty-tive
Forty.
DESTRUCTION IN ILLINOIS AND INDIANA.
MOUNT CARMEL, Ill, April 25-A violent
wlnd-storm passed about mile north of
this place Friday evening, resulting in the
death of two persons, serious injury to six
others, and monetary loss of about $780,
000 The killed and injured are as fol
lows:
Killed-John II. Wirths boy ten years old;
Lewis Kerstein, young married man.
Injured-Harvey Riggs, seriously: two Hutch
ms boys, one seriously; Miss Maggie Wirths,
seriously; Mrs. John Kellar, badly wounded;
John Price, cut on head and face.
Twenty-Five or thirty houses and barns
and two school Louses were totally or
partially demolis..od. Some of the finest
orchards in the country were destroyed
several being covered witt the ruins of ad-
joining buildings. The velocity of the wind
was fifty miles per hour, and every
thing in its track was swept from the
ground Some of the largest trees in
this vicinity were snapped off like twigs
and in the ruined barns and outbuildings
many cattle, horses and hogs were killed.
Growing crops also suffered severely. The
main track was seventy yards wide, but it
cleared up orchards and fences for width
of half a mile. The property destroyed is
estimated at over $500
EVANSVILLE Ind, April 25.-Friday
night tornado passed up White river
crossing the Evansville q Terre Haute
railroad at Hazelton, thirty eight miles
north of this place, doing great damage to
property and killing James II. Knott, a
fisherman, and Scott Salby, a mechanic,
working on a barn, and fatally injuring
another man. Large quantities of corn in
CRIBS were blown into the river. The
small village of West Buena Vista was
seriously wrecked, only two houses re-
naming uniniured.
THURSDAYS BLOW IN THE WEST
ST. LOUIS, April 25.-The details of the
destruction wrought by Thursdays cyclone
are still coming in and the indications are
that the loss of life was much greater than
first reported The storm ravaged strip
of territory 500 miles long and from half
mile to a mile wide This path is covered
with the debris of thousands of homes.
Scores of isolated hamlets oft direct lines
of communication are known to have been
visited by the storm, but the disastrous re-
suits have not yet been ascertained
The cyclone was first heard of early
Thursday afternoon at Colony, Anderson
County, Kan, about forty miles north
west of Fort Scott. 1t was preceded by
rumbling sound such as usually accom-
panies an earthquake. The color of the
cloud was combination of green and yell
low, and without any warning except the
noise referred to it swept down on Colony
and tore the little town to fragments.
fho17con1 ~ Of
was destroyed and one aged woman who
was sitting in a farmhouse doorway was
killed.
The storm dashed over the southern por-
ton of Anderson and Linn Countless tray
cling due east until it reached Prescott, a
town of about 1000 inhabitants in the
southeast corner of Linn County. The
cloud had at this time, early Thursday
evening, assumed the funnel shape that
indicates its most destructive mood. In
its progress through the town it RACED 200
buildings, killed fifteen persons and
manned twice as many more. Houses
were picked up from their foundations,
carried from 100 yards to quarter of
mile, and then dashed violently to the
ground. The dwellings in nearly every
case were shattered to fragments, and the
loss of life was caused as much by flying
timbers as the violence of the storm. Only
one-fourth of the houses IN the village re-
main intact. A dispatch from Prescott
says.
There are eighty destitute families, and the
physicians treated $50 persons who were suffer
ing from severe injuries. Several hundred dol
lars was raised at Pleasanton and Blue Mound,
but the sum is not sufficient to even temporar-
ly relieve the restitution. The path of the cy-
clone on each side of the town is Uttered with
ruins. Wagons filled with the injured have
been coming in all day. The village
of Miami, few miles north of here,
is completely wiped out Only two build
ings are left standing, and not a trace
off forty or fifty that stood previous to the
advent of tae cyclone can be found. A few tim
bers are scattered here and there over the prai-
RE, but it is actual fact that nothing but cell
lars and foundations remain to show that
village was located on the spot. The inhabi
tants acted with more Judgment than the
people of Prescott Upon the first obser
walton of the storm they suspected
its character and took refuge in cyclone
cellars and deep cellars beneath their
houses. Three persons are reported to have
been killed outright. Extreme restitution pre-
walls at the place, and the farm-hOuses crops
and livestock in the vicinity have been ami
hilated. The country is very thckly settled,
( and the reports of the awful result of the cy
twelve miles. Beyond that it is supposed the
destruction is just as great as here AMI the list
of dead and wounded will receive many more
accessions when the details from the territory
referred to are received.
Humble Station, on the Pacific road, was
destroyed, only one building being left
standing. About fifty houses were de-
stroyed at Sprague and nearly 200 persons
injured, many of them, it is believed, ia
tally. At Ozark, GAINESVILLE and Searcy
the loss of life was appalling. The loss in
property is estimated at $1,000 900 in Kan
sas and Missouri.
Additional particulars from the storm
swept district near Nevada, Mo, show that
over fifteen persons were killed in Blue
Mound and Usage townships, besides the
lives lost in other townships. tits thought
the loss of life in the path of the cyclone
will reach forty.
Boliver County, Miss, was visited by
terrible hail-storm which killed many cat
lie and horses and inflicted serious injury
on number of colored people Several
large buildings were wrecked and total
damage of S., 900 done.
( A Cleveland Servant Girl Choked to Death
by an Unknown Brute.
CLEVELAND, O., April 25.-The dead body
VI MdIy MCCdftly, uOIneStiC III IHo eu-
ploy of Rev. Wilton Merle Smith, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church, was
found murdered partly under the rear
porch of the residence of c. D. Hatch,
the nezt-dcor neighbor of Mr.. Smith.
Her hair and clothing were disarranged,
her purse hat and gloves lay in the front
yard, and some of her undergarments had
been torn from her person. The girl was
respectable, and had been absent during
the afternoon and evening visiting her
mother, who lives in another part of the
city. A post-mortem examination showed
that she was choked to death by her assaiI-
ant
Brave Jennie Bowmans AssaiIant.
LOUISVILLE, KY April 25.-The police
have caught and sent to the Kentucky
penitentiary for safe keeping mulatto
named Turner, who confesses the perpe